On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 19:14 -0900, Greg Madden wrote:
> 
> On Thursday 27 January 2011 05:48:39 pm John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 20:12 -0600, Timothy Pearson wrote:
> > > > I'm feeling really stupid.  I have an installation of Trinity on
> > > > Squeeze where the user uses Icedove for email.  For some reason, it
> > > > wants to open PDF files in GIMP.  I see the same thing in other Gnome
> > > > applications like Evolution.
> > > >
> > > > I've gone to Icedove preferences and tried to change the application
> > > > type and clicking on other . . . does not produce a dialog box to
> > > > select an application (like KPDF or acroread).  I installed
> > > > kgtk-config-icedove but that did not help.  I even installed Nautilus
> > > > and tried setting the application association there.  That at least
> > > > presented KPDF as an option in Evolution but not in Icedove.  I
> > > > installed gconf-editor but that does not seem to address application
> > > > associations.
> snip
> 
> Trinity on Squeeze, Icedove brings up the dialog box for other applications here.
> 'edit>preferences>attachments>Portable Document Format '
> 
> The default is 'always ask, but the drop down list has Gimp, evince & other. The 
> other bring up the selection box for navigating to the app.
> 
> it seems like something is missing or mis-configured.
> 
> FYI, Gnome Desktop might not work since Icedove is not a Gnome app, 
> "The goal of Icedove is to produce a cross platform standalone mail application
>  using the XUL user interface language."
> 
Thanks.  At least I know it's not a Trinity issue now.  I'll have to
figure out what is missing that I do not get the selection box.  I was
hoping kgtk-config-icedove would make it use the KDE information and
selection box but it is still pulling the Gnome one.  Thanks again -
John